A company with strong roots

HDI-Gerling has been an active brand in the insurance market since October 2006. That was when life insurers HDI and Gerling merged to create HDI-Gerling Lebensversicherung AG. Since then, together with ASPECTA, they have formed the HDI-Gerling Life Group.

A year later, the property/casualty insurers of HDI and Gerling followed suit and merged to form the HDI-Gerling Property Insurance Group, based in Hannover, Germany. HDI-Gerling Life operates out of Cologne, Germany. In September 2009 the Life-Group has moved away from the Cologne district Friesenviertel to the Rheinpark-Metropole building in Cologne-Deutz.

The mergers were preceded by the acquisition of the Gerling Group by Talanx, the owner of HDI Versicherungen. The union of HDI und Gerling marks the marriage fusion of two companies that each look back on a history stretching more than a hundred years into the past.